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Where's the Outrage for Dead Police?
.By GEORGE ALIANO
Who was Eulia Love?' David Kubley?
Paul Verna? Rodney G. King? O.J. Bryant?
··Gary Murikami? Tina Kerbrat? Danny
Pratt? Most people will remember Eulia
Love and, of course, Rodney G. King, the
subject of the much-viewed videotape of
hisarrest. ·
There was a great deal of protesting,
. picketing, political rhetoric and news coverage.
over the shooting death of Love, as
there is now over the force used against
t; King. Where was this outcry for the cops
1 killed protecting you? People will not even
.. remember who they are, even though they
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died for you. There was no picketing in
front of Parker Center. There were no
special hearings by the City Council or the
Police Commission. There were no community
leaders or ACLU attorneys demanding
that officers be 'provided more
protection or concerned about why it
happened. Where were th~ protesters?
Where was their outrage?
And, just as important, the police officers
of this city did not picket or demonstrate in
various communities to protest the failure
of those community leaders or parents or
.peers to adequately control those in their
environment who committed such heinous
crimes. We don't blame communities or a
class or group of- people for the acts
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committed by individuals, because we
know that everyone is responsible for 'his
or her own actions. Those who attempt to
blame an entire group are playing a -fool's
game and trying to dupe the public.
Archbishop Roger Mahony, at the fu­
·neral of Officer Tina Kerbrat, said to the
4,000 law enforcement officers present,
"We owe you an apology for not.doing our
job by allowing people to c9mmit vi~ious
crimes against you. We ask you 'to please
forgive us." We do! We forgiv~ because we
understand human frailties and imperfections
in others as we do in ourselves.
· . George Aliano is president of the Los
Angeles Police Protective League, on whose
:behalf this is writt~..
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Date: MON. 1
MAR 18 1
1991
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WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE FOR
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DEAD POLICE?
CIVIL RIGHTS
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